Today’s new Radio Free Charleston was not an episode of the show I enjoyed putting together. If you’ve been reading PopCult for the last few days, you know that Lee Harrah died on Thanksgiving night.

When one of your best friends dies, and said friend was not only a fixture of the local music scene, but also a trusted partner in radio and video hijinks, you pretty much have to do a tribute show.

I am interrupting the planned “Best of 2025” series of RFC shows to dedicate this show to Lee. This is Lee’s episode of Radio Free Charleston  that you can hear today on The AIR.  To listen to The AIR, you simply have to point your cursor over and tune in at the website, or you could just stay here, and  listen to the cool embedded player found elsewhere on this page.  

You can hear Radio Free Charleston Tuesdays at 10 AM and 10 PM, with boatloads of replays throughout the week.

This episode is a mix of Lee’s music with three bands, Stone Ka Tet, The Ghosts of Now and HARRAH, combined with some of his favorite artists, and three episodes of the show we did together, Word Association with Lee and Rudy. I hope that the many people who knew Lee will enjoy spending just a litle more time with him, and those who didn’t can get just a hint of what he was like.

There was nobody like Lee Harrah.

Also, throughout the week, you can hear, in the RFC Daily timeslot at 5 PM Eastern time Tuesday through Friday, instead of RFC, you will hear a mix of Harrah’s Hard & Heavy and Word Association with Lee & Rudy. These were the shows Lee did for The AIR back in 2016 and 2017, before life got in the way.  Sunday at 9 AM, and runing until 8 PM, you can hear a marathon of Lee’s shows, along with his episode of Six Degrees of Separation.

We don’t have links this week, but here’s the playlist…

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The Ghosts of Now “Deathburn”
HARRAH “Nothing Me”
The Ramones “Rock n Roll High School”
Creedence Clearwater Revival “Green River”
Iron Maiden “Can I Play With Madness”
Type O Negative “Love You To Death”
Stone Ka Tet “Adam’s Song”
Word Association “The Hulk”
HARRAH “Blood Moon”
The Ghosts of Now “Alaska Looks Like Arizona”
Lemmy & Friends “Back In The U.S.S.R.”
Tina Turner “Get Back”
The Beatles “Now And Then”
Stone Ka Tet “River Low”
Word Association “George Romero”
HARRAH “Pay The Piper”
Stone Ka Tet “Patton’s Blues”
Ozzy Osbourne “Crazy Train”
Iron Maiden “Hallowed Be Thy Name”
Word Association “Great Albums”

You can hear this episode of Radio Free Charleston Tuesday at 10 AM and 10 PM on The AIR, with replays Wednesday at 9 AM,  Thursday at 2 PM, Friday at 9 AM, Saturday at Noon and Midnight, Sunday at 8 PM and  Monday at 11 AM, exclusively on The AIR. We bring you a marathon all night long Saturday night/Sunday morning.

I’m also going to  embed a low-fi, mono version of this show right in this post, right here so you can listen on demand.

 

After RFC, stick around for encores of last week’s episodes of  MIRRORBALL at 1 PM and Curtain Call at 2 PM.

At 3 PM  The Swing Shift is an encore of two recent episodes.

 You can hear The Swing Shift Tuesday at 3 PM, with replays Wednesday at 8 AM, Thursday at 9 AM,  Friday at 10 AM and 8 PM and Saturday afternoon, only on The AIR . You can also hear all-night marathons, seven hours each, starting at Midnight Thursdays and Sundays.